The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-04

Same COMMITTEES were charged with the duty
of making inquiry of the holders of the val L
Gus sites on the canal as to their Willingness
to sell, and their prices. There was cor
siderable discussion as to the Bind OF SoodS
to be manufactured, etc, but no conclusion
was reached.
A correspondent in this weeks issue OF
the Bishopville Enterprise revives the idea
of forming a new county, part OF whlcn
will cut into Sumter, and the county seat OF
which will be the village Of Bishopvllle. a
call is made for mass-meetng OF the cltl-
zeus of Bishopville township at Bishopvli!i,e,
ON Saturday, July 16, when the matter wiz
be thoroughly discussed. This idea, OF
new county was started last fall just before
the meeting Of the Legislature, but fell
through, and 1t is scarcely probable that IL
will amount to anything in the end.
Greenwood is now rejoicing over the. gift
to the Male High School ofsa magnificent
library by one of Abbevilles generous and
noble citizens, Col James Edward Calhoun.
1t contains probably 800 or 1000 volumes,
valued at about $1,000. 1t consists OF histo-
ries, biographies, poems, travels, essays,
welt-bound reviews. encyclopedias, classical
dictionary, commentaries on the Bible, philo-
sophical and scientific works and misceila-
neous works; also the works of Cicero. Arts
totle and Plato. Accompanying the books
are two walnut cases with glass doors.
Boney Washington was arrested Wednes-
day at Green Pond by Constable Howard
and placed in jail He is charged with the
killing of A. f. Morgan, the peddler who
was murdered near Green Pond several
months since, and for which murder Cesar
White is now in Jail el1ing out a miserable
existence, which will be terminated il his
sentence be executed on Aug. 26. A pre-
liminary examination was held Saturday to
investigate the charges against Boney.
Some very important testimony was adj
duced, upon which grounds a respite will be
asked for Caesar, aud Boney will be made
to answer by trial for the grave offense.
Capt. Sigh, of the penitcntiary guard,
returned to Columbia Thursday from Ar
kansas with w. j. Carr, the escaped con
Wet Carr is the one-armed white man who
was captured in store at Abbeville in
1885, while In the act of robbing it at night
and at the October term of the court was
convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary
for five years While the work was going
on on the Columbia canal he was employed
as fireman of one of the hosting engines,
and as his duties required him to go TO work
much earlier than the balance OF the con-
victs, he got the opportunity one morning
in May 1888, before the guard line was es-
tablished, and made his escape from the
man in charge,
Chancellor johnson, Col D. p. Duncan
and Commissioner Butler have returned
from their inspection of the sites offered for
the establishment of an experimental sta
ton in lower Carolina The committee Wis
tied Darlington, Georgetown and Berkeley.
The agricultural board will meet to-day,
and then the committees which visited the
sites in upper and lower Carolina will make
their reports and the board will take some
definite action in the matter. 1t is pretty
certain that the committee will recommend
the establishment of the station for lower
Carolina in Berkeley county. The gentle
men of the committee are enthusiastic about
the Berkeley lands. They never dreamed
Of such lands and such farms in Berkeley
county.
A very remarkable homicide occurred at
the union depot at Columbia at o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. Scott Logan, a fire
man on the switch engine in the Columbia
and Greenville railroad yard, and Jack Dill
lard a car coupler in the same yard, got
into a dispute about their work and finally
came to blows. During the fight Logan
butted billiard on the head, and in fifteen
minutes the latter was dead The coroner
held an inquest. at which four
or five witnesses were examined. From
their evidence it would seem that the ne
groes were not very angry with each
other, were not esn1rsing or hitting hitting
mara, UuU LILO scuHililB was TduileT
good-natured. billiard had Logan by
the collar, holdong. him up against the
engine, when the latter suddenly butted
his opponent on the head. Each one then
asked the other if he was satisfied, and they
separated laughing. Logan was sent to the
penitentiary with his engine, and upon his
return was informed that billiard was dead.
Shortly after the ending of the fight billiard
took off his shoes and crawled under a
xsyla In found IL,
condition fifteen minutes later He never
spoke to any one after the fight. The coro-
ner's jury, after obtaining all the evidence
possible, found a verdict of accidental kill
ing, caused by being butted on the head by
Scott Logan.